Simplify: 10 Practices to Unclutter Your Soul

Simplify by Bill Hybels

Can you relate to any of these words: exhausted…overwhelmed…overscheduled…anxious…isolated…dissatisfied? Bill Hybels—founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in Illinois, which has been recognized as the most influential church in America for several years—began using the term “simplify.” How do we simplify our lives? He saw how the very word seemed to energize people, so he wrote a book Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul.

In the book, Hybels points out that simplified living is about more than just doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. It’s walking away from innumerable lesser opportunities in favor of the few to which we’ve been called and for which we’ve been created.

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What are you Sacrificing?

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. - James Anthony Froude

Many want to climb the corporate ladder, hoping for freedom and power at the top.

They think, “When I get to the top, then I will learn to lead. If I were on top, everyone would follow. Or, when I get to the top I will be able to do anything.” They don’t recognize these are myths of leadership. Leadership is influence, and when you get to the top, you have to practice servant leadership which requires sacrifice.

Leaders who want to rise have to do more than take an occasional cut in pay; they have to give up their rights. That’s true of every leader, regardless of profession. Talk with any leader, and you will find that she or he has made repeated sacrifices, and the higher the leader has climbed, the greater the sacrifices made.

Out of This World Leaders sacrifice the good in order to get the best.

Click here to learn more about John Maxwell’s 18th Law of Leadership from the life of Moses in Exodus 3 & 4.